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...theory endorsed but in practice ignored. E.U. budget Commissioner Michaele Schreyer had proposed scrapping the U.K.'s 20-year-old rebate from Brussels, worth an average $5.7 billion annually. The payback was negotiated in 1984 by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, when Britain was one of the club's poorest members. The U.K. has since enjoyed unparalleled economic growth - and newer, poorer E.U. members...
According to Summers, a child born in the poorest 10 percent of society has only a one-third chance of rising above the bottom 20 percent...
According to Summers, a child born in the poorest 10 percent of society has only a one-third chance of rising above the bottom 20 percent...
...gone and my house is gone too," said 40-year-old Rosin Madombe, whose two small children drowned before she could get them out of her now-submerged house. "What am I supposed to do?" With hurricane season only a few months off, relief organizations rushed to assist the poorest country in the western hemisphere. "A few months ago we couldn't move because of security," said Guy Gavreau of the U.N. World Food Program. "Now we can't move because the roads are destroyed." A minor earthquake that struck late Saturday caused little additional damage. - By Peter Prengaman...
...genocide. Some of us spent weeks monitoring proceedings in rural courts; others interviewed more than 40 survivors, prisoners and members of parliament about grassroots justice. It was an extraordinary opportunity for us to pursue serious field research in one of the world’s poorest nations, and to have our findings published in a leading journal. The CID was instrumental in demonstrating Harvard’s commitment to development studies through its exceptional faculty guidance and financial support for our project. I know our project was not unique; each year, tens of undergraduates are granted similar opportunities that often...